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According to Trendmicro, DressCode-a family of Android malware, has been found circulating in at least 3,000 Trojanized apps. An Android malware is spreading across app stores, including Google Play, and has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks. DressCode hides itself inside games, user interface themes, and phone optimization boosters. It can also be difficult to detect because the malicious coding only makes up a small portion of the overall app. On Google Play, Trend Micro found more than 400 apps that are part of the DressCode family, it said. That's 10 times more than what security researchers at Check Point observed a month ago. Trend Micro added that one these apps on Google Play had been installed 100,000 to 500,000 times. Once installed, Dress Code's malicious coding will contact its command and control servers and receive orders from its developers. The malware is particularly dangerous because it can infiltrate whatever internet

A vulnerability in the MySQL database could allow attackers to completely compromise some servers. The vulnerability affects "all MySQL servers in default configuration in all version branches (5.7, 5.6, and 5.5) including the latest versions," as well as the MySQL-derived databases MariaDB and Percona DB, according to Dawid Golunski, the researcher who found it. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-6662, can be exploited to modify the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf) and cause an attacker-controlled library to be executed with root privileges if the MySQL process is started with the mysqld_safe wrapper script. The exploit can be executed if the attacker has an authenticated connection to the MySQL service, which is common in shared hosting environments, or through an SQL injection flaw, a common type of vulnerability in websites. Golunski reported the vulnerability to the developers of all three affected database servers, but only MariaDB and Percona DB received patc